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FORTUNE COOKIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fortune cookie mean?
• FORTUNE COOKIE (noun)
The noun FORTUNE COOKIE has 1 sense:
1. thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
Familiarity information: FORTUNE COOKIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fortune cookie" is a kind of...):
biscuit; cookie; cooky (any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term))
Domain region:
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
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